Brainstormers astro quiz quiz prelims

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INTERHOUSE ASTRO QUIZ 2014-15 AT

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INTERHOUSE ASTRO QUIZ

2014-15AT

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ROUND 1

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PRELIMS

• This is a written round.

• This round contain 20 question.

• Star marked questions will be used to resolve

ties.

• No clues will be provided.

• The decision of the quiz master will be final .

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Q. 1*

1) Who was the first woman astronomer in recorded history ?

(a) Annie J. Cannon

(b) Henrietta S. Leavitt

(c) Caroline Herschel

(d) Jocelyn Bell

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Q. 2

2) Where was the world’s first modern planetarium installed?

(a) London

(b) Moscow

(c) New York

(d) Bonn

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Q. 3

3) Who was the founder of lunar topography ?

(a) Johannes Hevelius

(b) Giovanni Riccioli

(c) Johann Kepler

(d) Galileo Galilei

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Q. 4

4) Who developed the technique for measuring the distance of distant stars?

a) Edward Pickering

b) Christian Doppler

c) Friedrich W. Bessel

d) Henrietta S. Leavitt

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Q.5*

5) Who discovered Neptune?

a) J.G.Galle

b) J.C.Adams

c) Urbain Leverrer

d) Clyde Tombaugh

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Q. 6

6) Who discovered the moons of Mars?

a) Tycho Brahe

b) Asaph Hall

c) E.M.Antoniadi

d) Mikhail Lomonosov

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Q. 7

7) Who invented the reflecting telescope?

a) William Herschel

b) William Parsons

c) Isaac Newton

d) Galileo Galilei

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Q. 8

8)Who is this smiling Indian radio astronomer?

a) V. Balasubramanian

b) V.R. Venugopal

c) Ch.V. Sastry

d) Govind Swarup

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Q. 9

9)What is the ideal place for an astronomical observatory?

a) Space

b) Mountain top

c) Lakeside

d) Seashore

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Q. 10*

10) What is a telescope with a convex objective and a concave eyepiece known as?

a) Newtonian telescope

b) Cassegrain telescope

c) Hubble telescope

d) Galilean telescope

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Q. 11

11) Which is this huge American optical telescope?

a) Hale telescope

b) Hooker telescope

c) Mcmath telescope

d) Du pont telescope

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Q. 12

12) Which law in astronomy has yet no scientific justification?

a) Kepler’s law

b) Newton’s law

c) Bode’s law

d) Hubble’s law

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Q. 13

13) Which planet has the highest number of moons discovered so far ?

a) Jupiter

b) Saturn

c) Uranus

d) Mars

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Q. 14

14) What is the age of the moon?

a) 4600 million years

b) 3600 million years

c) 5600 million years

d) 2600 million years

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Q.15*

15) Of the following outer planets, which is the odd one out ?

a) Mars

b) Earth

c) Saturn

d) Neptune

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Q. 16

16) Which planet does not have thunderstorms in its atmosphere?

a) Mars

b) Venus

c) Jupiter

d) Saturn

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Q. 17

17) Which planet has the largest moon in the solar system ?

a) Saturn

b) Jupiter

c) Mars

d) Earth

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Q. 18

18) Which gaseous planet has two satellites?

a) Neptune

b) Mars

c) Jupiter

d) Uranus

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Q. 19

19) Which constellation is called the

‘Great Dog’ ?

a) Canis Major

b) Canes Venatici

c) Cepheus

d) Cetus

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Q. 20*

20) It is the world’s largest solar telescope. Which observatory has this telescope?

a) Mc Donald Observatory

b) European Southern Observatory

c) Northern Hemisphere Observatory

d) Kitt Peak national

Observatory